Cate Blanchett Books

Very good western and Jones & Blanchett were prefect for it. Sure was a bad landscape - I'll bet they were tired of that area. I'll be sure and never travel there.

I love Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett, but to be perfectly honest, this movie was unwatchable. I do not know how I actually finished it. There was so much wrong with this film, that I was shocked by the fact. The plot is incoherent and utterly bland, as were the uninspiring performances by everyone. The bleak environment did nothing for the atmosphere of the film. Nothing about this movie interested me in any way. Boreing is an understatement.

This is fine storytelling with well thought performances all around. The Apache's inhumanity to their prisoners is entirely believable. Blanchett's coldness to Tommy Lee Jones is central to the story and indispencible. This film belongs among the modern classics of western film which truly make the old favorites from the 40's through the 50's seem both boring and contrived.

I think that people who dislike this film are missing some valuable dramatic aspects. It's all about conflicts and extremes. Magic versus science, religion versus mysticism,ignorance and fact, man pitted against nature, old and young, healers and shamans.Why did the father turn away from his family and embrace the native ways? Why is the daughter living a seclusive life. What are they both running from? When the father first returned, I knew he would be the hero or the villain. This is what makes a good story...tension.

The Missing DVD


The Missing, starring Tommy Lee Jones in an adaptation of The Searchers (John Wayne Collection)with Cate Blanchard as a frontier widow whose daughter is captured by an Indian-led outlaw gang.

Highly recommended for fans of The Searchers (Two-Disc Anniversary Edition), western movies and Tommy Lee Jones.

Gunner March, 2008

Very good western and Jones & Blanchett were prefect for it. Sure was a bad landscape - I'll bet they were tired of that area. I'll be sure and never travel there.

I love Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett, but to be perfectly honest, this movie was unwatchable. I do not know how I actually finished it. There was so much wrong with this film, that I was shocked by the fact. The plot is incoherent and utterly bland, as were the uninspiring performances by everyone. The bleak environment did nothing for the atmosphere of the film. Nothing about this movie interested me in any way. Boreing is an understatement.

This is fine storytelling with well thought performances all around. The Apache's inhumanity to their prisoners is entirely believable. Blanchett's coldness to Tommy Lee Jones is central to the story and indispencible. This film belongs among the modern classics of western film which truly make the old favorites from the 40's through the 50's seem both boring and contrived.

I think that people who dislike this film are missing some valuable dramatic aspects. It's all about conflicts and extremes. Magic versus science, religion versus mysticism,ignorance and fact, man pitted against nature, old and young, healers and shamans.Why did the father turn away from his family and embrace the native ways? Why is the daughter living a seclusive life. What are they both running from? When the father first returned, I knew he would be the hero or the villain. This is what makes a good story...tension.

The Missing DVD


The Missing, starring Tommy Lee Jones in an adaptation of The Searchers (John Wayne Collection)with Cate Blanchard as a frontier widow whose daughter is captured by an Indian-led outlaw gang.

Highly recommended for fans of The Searchers (Two-Disc Anniversary Edition), western movies and Tommy Lee Jones.

Gunner March, 2008